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Author Grant, Ben, 1973-
Title The aphorism and other short forms / Ben Grant.
Publisher London : Routledge, 2016.


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Descript 152 pages.
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Contents Introduction -- An historical overview. Ancient Greece and Rome; The medieval anthology; The Renaissance; The age of wit; The romantic fragment; The making of America; Friedrich Nietzsche; Modernism; Postmodern decentring -- Brevity. Concision; Intensity; Speed; Condensation -- Wisdom. Chreia; Love; Excess; Uselessness -- Authority. Author; Quotation; Definition; Misogyny -- Thoughts and impressions. Travel; Greguerøa; Notebook; Interpretation -- Enigma and paradox. Paradox; Truth; Nonsense; Question -- Singularity and multiplicity. Fragments; Singularity; Series -- The aphorism today -- Glossary.
ISBN 9780415829281 (hbk.)
9780415829298 (pbk.)
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Author Grant, Ben, 1973-
Series The new critical idiom
Subject Aphorisms and apothegms -- History and criticism.
Maxims -- History and criticism.
Epigram -- History and criticism.
Proverbs -- History and criticism.
Paradox -- History.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
Descript 152 pages.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Contents Introduction -- An historical overview. Ancient Greece and Rome; The medieval anthology; The Renaissance; The age of wit; The romantic fragment; The making of America; Friedrich Nietzsche; Modernism; Postmodern decentring -- Brevity. Concision; Intensity; Speed; Condensation -- Wisdom. Chreia; Love; Excess; Uselessness -- Authority. Author; Quotation; Definition; Misogyny -- Thoughts and impressions. Travel; Greguerøa; Notebook; Interpretation -- Enigma and paradox. Paradox; Truth; Nonsense; Question -- Singularity and multiplicity. Fragments; Singularity; Series -- The aphorism today -- Glossary.
ISBN 9780415829281 (hbk.)
9780415829298 (pbk.)
Author Grant, Ben, 1973-
Series The new critical idiom
Subject Aphorisms and apothegms -- History and criticism.
Maxims -- History and criticism.
Epigram -- History and criticism.
Proverbs -- History and criticism.
Paradox -- History.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 6th Floor  PN 6269 A2 G7  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Aphorisms and apothegms -- History and criticism.
Maxims -- History and criticism.
Epigram -- History and criticism.
Proverbs -- History and criticism.
Paradox -- History.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
Descript 152 pages.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Contents Introduction -- An historical overview. Ancient Greece and Rome; The medieval anthology; The Renaissance; The age of wit; The romantic fragment; The making of America; Friedrich Nietzsche; Modernism; Postmodern decentring -- Brevity. Concision; Intensity; Speed; Condensation -- Wisdom. Chreia; Love; Excess; Uselessness -- Authority. Author; Quotation; Definition; Misogyny -- Thoughts and impressions. Travel; Greguerøa; Notebook; Interpretation -- Enigma and paradox. Paradox; Truth; Nonsense; Question -- Singularity and multiplicity. Fragments; Singularity; Series -- The aphorism today -- Glossary.
ISBN 9780415829281 (hbk.)
9780415829298 (pbk.)

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